iain wall

       
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            Iain Wall is an interdisciplinary artist incorporating printmaking sensibilities into their drawing, painting, and sculpture practice. Stylistically, their work integrates references to medieval art and the British material culture of their ancestry to construct tablets and frames that meditate on gay love and life force, be it in solace or celebration. Studying the language of visual framing, Wall depicts amalgamated interplays of structure and content, their multi-apertured narratives becoming part and parcel of the embellished border. Collaging cobblestone, brick, and stained glass motifs, Wall builds an ornamental vocabulary that not only emphasizes physical presence but draws parallels between the labor and temporality of building and that of human connection. The hatched marks of etching and the transference of plaster prints further showcase their everlasting quality. Between interior and exterior, ornamentally seen and graphically staring back, Wall’s work seeks to question the nature of presentation, what it means to queer the outline, and the transformative power of objecthood—how pictorial weight and tangibility become testaments. Love and loss, intimacy and independence, and grit and glamour are a few of the narrative binaries they conjure as they create and push forward a queer life force.


        Wall holds a BFA in Printmaking with a concentration in Art History from the Rhode Island School of Design. Their work has been included in “Memories and How We Hold Them” as well as “Black: Color/Context/Meaning” at the RISD Museum’s Gelman Gallery and “Lost & Found” at the Dye House. Notably, they have completed residencies and exhibited work at The Chautauqua School of Art, The Peter Bullough Foundation, and been a fellowship recipient from the Manhattan Graphics Center.